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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

Why Vin decided to pivot the business (read: launch a second startup) and what he learned going from B2C to B2B. Or listen on SoundCloud below: The post Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO appeared first on NextView Ventures. You can subscribe here. Listen to episode 10 on iTunes: bit.ly/TractionPodcast.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C). Physical-World Ecommerce.

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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

Why Vin decided to pivot the business (read: launch a second startup) and what he learned going from B2C to B2B. Or listen on SoundCloud below: The post Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO appeared first on The View From Seed. You can subscribe here. Listen to episode 10 on iTunes: bit.ly/TractionPodcast.

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values. To become a truly special consumer tech community, Boston needs more pillar B2C companies. Talking design was Brian Kalma, design chief at Blade, a startup foundry launched by Paul English, former co-founder/CTO of Kayak.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

In investing in B2C, we also look for network effects but usually those are created rather than natural. B2C startups we’ve invested in like ROIKOI and Thread are tapping into network effects?—?and Reed’s law on networks is a good resource to really nail this home. and they are both natural, like Facebook’s or LinkedIn’s.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. Where do you start?

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